California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Ming-Hsiang Kao v. Joy Holiday, 12 Cal.App.5th 947, 219 Cal.Rptr.3d 580 (Cal. App. 2017):
of employment and such person is presumed to be a servant in the absence of evidence to the contrary. [Citations.] Once the employee establishes a prima facie case, the burden shifts to the employer, which may prove, if it can, that the presumed employee was an independent contractor" (Narayan v. EGL, Inc. (9th Cir. 2010) 616 F.3d 895, 900 ) or, in this case, a non-employee trainee. No such proof exists here; all evidence points to an employer-employee relationship.
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